At your request, we manage and renew domains for many of you. Some of you manage your own domains and can disregard this post.

On the domains that we renew, you are invoiced either monthly, quarterly or annually. Unfortunately, we are continuing to experience increased cost from the major domain registries when your domains are renewed, and as a result, need to increase domain renewal prices accordingly. Effective March 1, 2019, all domain renewal prices will increase to $4.50 monthly.

This applies to .com, .net and .org domain names. All other domain extensions need to be quoted individually.

Should you have questions, please feel to contact your BizCom Global representative.

Microsoft recently released an update to Outlook 2016 called Direct Connect to Office 365.

This update is causing connectivity problems for some users to our Hosted Exchange service.

Symptoms involve the inability to send email, sent email being returned with the sending address showing as a long outlook.com address or the inability for Outlook to open its folders due to a login error.

To fix this issue please refer to the following KB article (you must be signed in to the support site to view the KB article)...

We are currently working on the following -Hosted Desktops - Services being restored. Currently at 50% restoration.File Cloud (file storage and Sharing) - Services being restored. Currently at 40% restoration.

Just a heads up if you are running older versions of PHP. Please review this notice ASAP and take the appropriate action to avoid having issues with your website or any custom applications running older versions of PHP.

*OLD* PHP 5.6 and 7.0 – QUICKLY APPROACHING END-OF-SUPPORT PHP is used by over 80% of websites. With that in mind, keeping your website secure is extremely important. Each new PHP version is actively supported by the PHP community for two years following the initial stable release. At the end of the two-year active support, each receives an additional year of critical security issues updates. At this time, both PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 are quickly reaching the end of their extended security support. WordPress statistics indicate that 5.6 and 7.0 are currently in use on over 50% of WordPress sites.

---PHP 5.6 will no longer be supported for critical security updates after December 31st, 2018.

---PHP 7.0 will no longer be supported for critical security updates after December 3rd, 2018.

BizCom recommends preparing for an upgrade by testing your site for compatibility with the newer versions. This may include the need to upgrade multiple times from one version to the next, depending on how many versions behind the current stable release your site currently runs. Critical security updates are an essential part of protecting your business presence on the web. Don’t leave your site vulnerable to attacks. Additionally, the newer PHP versions are far superior in speed, performance and efficiency.